Northwest Labor Press is an independent union-supported newspaper founded in 1900. Our print version is mailed twice a month to about 45,000 members of over three dozen local unions in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Our online version has been maintained here since 1997.
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BOLI
Workers Rights
BOLI at the breaking point
Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries says it’s time for lawmakers to put their money where their mouth is.
Workers Rights
Oregon Governor Kate Brown proposes more money for labor law enforcement
Oregon Labor Commissioner Val Hoyle is asking for an additional 25 full-time staff. The governor’s recommended budget proposes to add 11.
Workers Rights
Will Oregon get serious about labor law enforcement?
BOLI’s staff has shrunk by a third since 1995—even as Oregon added a million new residents and legislators gave it new laws to enforce.
Workers Rights
Study says employers are skirting landmark law aimed at curbing abusive scheduling practices
The only statewide law of its kind, SB 828 was meant to make workers’ schedules more predictable, but a UO study shows it's falling short.
Jobs
Tilesetting jobs were the one union sore spot on the Hyatt project
Bricklayers Local 1 warned Mortenson that there’d be problems with non-union contractor.
People
New wage and hour chief comes to Oregon from the national union movement
Hired by Oregon Labor Commissioner Val Hoyle, former top building trades lobbyist Sonia Ramirez began her new position July 8.
Oregon
At BOLI, a labor champion takes the reins
Newly installed Oregon Labor Commissioner Val Hoyle has had lifelong ties to the union movement, and named several labor figures to her staff.
Workers Rights
Oregon’s ‘incredible’ crackdown on wage theft
Oregon legislators passed a law that will make wage thieves tremble.
Oregon/Washington
Agencies near and dear to labor mostly spared cuts by Legislature
Among state agencies of concern to labor - BOLI, LERC, ERB - the scenario is belt-tightening but no disabling cuts.
